Hangouts for Android - Hangouts is a cross-platform instant messenger that allows you to keep in touch with friends via one-to-one conversations, group chats and video calls.
With Hangouts you can spice up conversations with emoji and photos, see wen your buddies have read your messages and when they are typing back, send messages to friends even if they are offline, continue conversations across devices, access all your chat history, etc.

What's New in This Release:

· Merged conversations: SMS and Hangout conversations with the same recipient are now combined into a single conversation. You can control whether you want to send a message via Hangouts or SMS with the flip of a switch, and different message types will be easy to tell apart in the conversation. Of course, you can always merge and unmerge conversations if you'd like.
· Simplified contact list: now there's two main sections in contacts - People you Hangout With, and Phone Contacts - making it simpler to navigate, and easier to use for SMS.
· Homescreen widget: add the Hangouts widget to your homescreen for quick access to your recent conversations.
· Performance improvements: today's update includes better quality video calls, as well as improved SMS and MMS reliability.

What's New in 2.1.075:

· Merged conversations: SMS and Hangout conversations with the same recipient are now combined into a single conversation. You can control whether you want to send a message via Hangouts or SMS with the flip of a switch, and different message types will be easy to tell apart in the conversation. Of course, you can always merge and unmerge conversations if you'd like.
· Simplified contact list: now there's two main sections in contacts - People you Hangout With, and Phone Contacts - making it simpler to navigate, and easier to use for SMS.
· Homescreen widget: add the Hangouts widget to your homescreen for quick access to your recent conversations.
· Performance improvements: today's update includes better quality video calls, as well as improved SMS and MMS reliability.

· You can finally see who is on Hangouts! When you start a new Hangout, green icons show who's on, and gray shows who's not;
· Contacts are now organized by People you Hangout with, Suggested People, and Other Contacts;
· Long press contacts in the New Hangout screen to hide them;
· Invites are now above your conversations so they're easier to find;
· Pinch-to-zoom photos.

What's New in 1.1.2.778356:

· Added more emoji!
· We added some butter to Hangouts to make it run faster and slicker.
· Fixed a bunch of bugs.